Right now I'm past the halfway mark in the book I am currently reading, Argo and I'm not really enjoying it that much. But if I had to make a new movie about the book, the three scenes I would still keep are the scene when the U.S. Embassy is being overrun, Tony assembling his team to enter Iran and the escapees of the Embassy seeking a safe haven with the Canadians. In the scene of the Embassy attack, I would show women flooding the grounds of the embassy like what really happened then the militants sneaking through the crowd to enter the buildings. After the workers isolate themselves from the outside, so them giving up and handing themselves into the militants. For the scene of assembling the team, I would show Tony calling for people to come in and him introducing each person of the team. In the scenes for the escapees of the attack, I would show them jump from every little place that they took refuge temporarily, leading up to them entering the Canadian Embassy.
Some scenes that I would cut out are the ones where he is in his art studio at home as well as the exfiltrations that he mentioned that he was a part of leading up to that current setting of the story. They had a scene at the beginning of the book where he is talking about painting in his home art studio and don't see the relevance to the main plot of the story which is helping to free the hostages at the Embassy. With the exfiltrations that Tony was a part of before the hostage crisis are interesting to help with his mission, though I feel that they distract you away from the real plot for the story.
All in all, I think that the book goes into too much detail about the people involved and there are too many side stories that distract you from the general plot. In the my rendition of the movie, I would make the main plot the focus of the movie with an occasional background story leading up to current setting.
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